adze
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Axes created a more symmetrical, oval fracture than the adze, for example.
From Science Magazine • Feb. 16, 2023
It’s as if she’s been carved like an archetypal totem, but with matte and glossy house paint, charcoal and oil paint on canvas rather than with a chisel or an adze from stone or wood.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2022
Holm showed Jackson, using his own adze that he had made from yew wood, with a thin handle that flexed.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 24, 2020
A wooden keel was shown with men of the adze and the plane.
From Slate • Jun. 20, 2020
“I have only a saw, hammer, chisel, and adze, but we are managing alright,” he reported in his diary.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Vocabulary lists containing adze
"The Odyssey," Vocabulary from Part 1 of the epic poem
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The Odyssey
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"The Odyssey" by Homer (Part One)
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